Nanoparticles based drilling muds a solution to drill elevated temperature wells: A review

Aftab, Adnan; Ismail, Abdul Razak; Ibupoto, Zafar Hussain; Akeiber, Hussein J.; Malghani, M.G.K.

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2017.03.050

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“…In the recent past, there have been a number of reports pertaining to the application of nanoparticles for oil and gas industry applications [10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. A typical water based drilling fluid is formulated using a variety of chemicals such as viscosifier, fluid loss control additive, shale stabilizer, lubricant, H 2 S scavenger, oxygen scavenger, biocide, etc.…”

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Potential Application of Nanomaterials in Oil and Gas Field Drilling Tools and Fluids Design

Amanullah¹,

Ramasamy²

2018

JCCE

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The emerging nanoscience, nanotechnology and nanomaterials can be used for various industrial applications to enhance reliability, performance, stability and functional capability. Their application in the design and development of tools and materials used in oil and gas industry for extreme drilling conditions could overcome the current limitations of conventional tools and the various fluid systems used by the industry. The functional limitations such as poor physio-chemical stability in acid gas environment, frequent mechanical failure and malfunctioning in complex geological environment, thermal degradation in high temperature environment, etc. of currently used conventional tools and fluid systems are associated with extreme operating conditions due to a shift of the drilling operation from low risk to high risk geological environments, onshore to offshore locations, shallow water to deep water environment, etc. The progressive shift to increasingly higher risk operating environments is unavoidable as the energy demand of global community has increased manifold and is expected to increase further in future. Moreover, the probability and likelihood of finding easy oils and gas resources in low risk areas are diminishing quickly. That is why the oil and gas companies are constantly shifting to extremely challenging environments to meet the global energy demand. This is reflected by the expansion of drilling activities in complex geological areas, deep water environments, extreme-HPHT environments, etc. As the current tools and equipment and also the additives and chemicals often fail and/or lose their functional ability due to the detrimental effect of exposure of extremely harsh conditions, the industry needs tools and equipment, chemicals fluid additives that are highly reliable, chemically resistive, thermally and mechanically stable to ensure safe and trouble free drilling operations. It has been demonstrated in several fields of study that nanostructured materials and additives exhibit improved mechanical, chemical, thermal, electrical and tribological properties that can significantly increase the stability and durability of the tools and equipment along with the chemical and thermal stability of additives required for high performance fluid design. This review article captures the recent developments about the application of nanomaterials in the design and development of tools, equipment, additives, chemicals and smart materials to overcome current and future technical challenges of the oil and gas industry. Finally, the conventional of rule of mixtures of composite materials design and the current nanotechnology-based research conducted by various researchers have been highlighted to demonstrate potential of nanotechnology to enhance the physical, mechanical, chemical and thermal property of tools, equipment and various fluid systems used by the oil and gas industry.

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Section: Application Of Nanomaterials In Drilling Fluidsmentioning

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Potential Application of Nanomaterials in Oil and Gas Field Drilling Tools and Fluids Design

Amanullah¹,

Ramasamy²

2018

JCCE

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“…The drilling fluid (DF) is intended to remove and suspend cuttings from the wellbore to the surface, respectively, control formation pressure, minimize formation damage, cool and lubricate drill bits. 2 Drilling fluids (DFs) can be categorized as water-based mud (WBM), oil-based muds (OBM), and foam. 3 Silicate-based mud is a waterbased mud that has been used in the oil industry for many years.…”

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Effect of Corncob Cellulose Nanoparticles on Silicate-Based Mud at High Temperature

Hamad¹,

He²,

Xu³

et al. 2020

Cellulose Chem. Technol.

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Silicate muds have been successfully used in drilling operations in shale formations. However, the application of silicate muds has shown challenges in controlling their rheological behavior. In this work, a low cost, environmentally friendly and high-performance silicate-based drilling fluid was developed using cellulose nanoparticles (CNPs) extracted from corncob. The study investigates the potential effect of corncob CNPs for improving critical drilling mud properties: rheology and filtration loss at high temperature. The extracted CNPs were characterized by a combination of spectroscopic and chemical techniques, such as FTIR, TEM, SEM and Zeta potential. The concentrations of CNPs were varied from 0.1 to 0.5 wt% by the weight of the drilling mud at different temperatures from 150 °C to 170 °C. The experimental results show that CNPs in silicate-based mud substantially improve both filtration and rheological properties. The CNPs not only improved the rheological properties and reduced the filtration loss behavior, but also bolstered the temperature resistance of the drilling mud formulation. In addition, the shear-thinning behavior of the silicate-based drilling mud with CNPs was measured using Bingham-Plastic, and Herschel-Bulkley models. The results show that the Herschel-Bulkley model adequately describes the shear-thinning relationship between the shear stress and shear-strain rate of the CNP silicate-based mud.

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“…There are many investigations of nanomaterials influence on the thermal stability and rheology of drilling mud reported in the literature 18,19 . Laponite NPs have been used to improve the onset decomposition temperature of and viscosity of the polymer in the drilling fluids at high‐temperature and high‐pressure conditions 20 .…”

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Numerical study of cuttings transport of nanoparticle‐based drilling fluid

Al‐Yasiri

Al‐Gailani

Wen

2020

Engineering Reports

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Cuttings transportation from the drill bit, through the annulus, to the surface is one of the most important functions performed by drilling fluid. The prediction of drilling fluid's performance to transport cuttings in the annulus is very complex task due to the presence of numerous parameters. Nanoparticles (NPs) have been recently introduced into drilling fluid to engineer its properties and enhance its performance. Nevertheless, the lifting capacity has not been sufficiently investigated. The understanding of the influence and the mechanisms responsible for the improvement in cuttings transport process can further advance the application of NPs for drilling fluids. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is widely used as a numerical technique in handling complex multiphase flow problems in different operational conditions. The present work has taken the advantages of CFD to computationally analyze the influence of NPs and the effects of various parameters such as drilling fluids rheology, flow rate, pipe rotation, cuttings density, shape, concentration, and drilling fluids-cuttings particle coupling regimes on the cuttings transport in a vertical wellbore. The CFD simulation is carried out by using transient solver of ANSYS-FLUENT commercial code. The dense discrete phase model is used to overcome the main shortcomings of previous Eulerian based approaches. Good agreement has been achieved between the simulation and the published experimental results. It showed that the fluid viscosity and cuttings transport process can be significantly enhanced by adding nanomaterials to the fluid, and the process is highly influenced by cuttings characteristics such as in situ concentration, shape, and density. K E Y W O R D SCFD, cuttings transport, drilling fluids, multiphase flow, nanoparticles, rheology, wellbore Abbreviations: CFD, computational fluid dynamics; DDPM, dense discrete phase model; DEM, discrete element method; HTHP, high temperature and high pressure; LTLP, low temperature and low pressure

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Nanoparticles based drilling muds a solution to drill elevated temperature wells: A review

Cited by 177 publications

References 96 publications

Potential Application of Nanomaterials in Oil and Gas Field Drilling Tools and Fluids Design

Potential Application of Nanomaterials in Oil and Gas Field Drilling Tools and Fluids Design

Effect of Corncob Cellulose Nanoparticles on Silicate-Based Mud at High Temperature

Numerical study of cuttings transport of nanoparticle‐based drilling fluid

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